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- 5/28/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Even if you didn't live in Paris in the swinging '60s, Francois Armanet's film (with its English title inexplicably adapted from "La Bande du drugstore") is likely to make you nostalgic for the freewheeling era with its elaborate fashions and terrific pop music. "Dandy", a tale of love and ennui among a quartet of attractive (needless to say) French teens, is the sort of mature and sophisticated treatment of teen amour that American audiences can only dream about seeing. The film was recently unveiled at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Set in the more innocent Parisian days before the 1968 political turmoil, the film depicts the complicated relationships among the sharply dressed but less than confident Philippe Mathieu Simonet), his aggressive best friend Marc (Aurelien Wilk), their sexually assured pal Nathalie (Alice Taglioni) and her friend Charlotte (Cecile Cassel). When Nathalie introduces Philippe to Charlotte at a party, he falls head over heels for her but is unable to make things happen despite her obvious encouragement. Eventually, Nathalie takes matters into her own hands and provides Philippe with some sexual lessons, though she's more interested in Charlotte's handsome divorced father (Thierry Lhermitte).
The episodic tale is best appreciated for its finely observed characterizations and its truthful portrait of the emotional and physical bumbling that results from teens trying to cope with their sexual and emotional needs. Alternately poignant and hilarious, sexy and moving, Armanet's screenplay, based on his novel, is filled with details, and his precise direction realizes them fully. The four lead performers seem utterly authentic in their roles, and the period re-creation contains the sort of small but important physical elements that add greatly to the fun. And it's all done to a fabulous '60s-era soundtrack featuring classic cuts by the likes of Otis Redding, the Animals, Aretha Franklin and many others.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Even if you didn't live in Paris in the swinging '60s, Francois Armanet's film (with its English title inexplicably adapted from "La Bande du drugstore") is likely to make you nostalgic for the freewheeling era with its elaborate fashions and terrific pop music. "Dandy", a tale of love and ennui among a quartet of attractive (needless to say) French teens, is the sort of mature and sophisticated treatment of teen amour that American audiences can only dream about seeing. The film was recently unveiled at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Set in the more innocent Parisian days before the 1968 political turmoil, the film depicts the complicated relationships among the sharply dressed but less than confident Philippe Mathieu Simonet), his aggressive best friend Marc (Aurelien Wilk), their sexually assured pal Nathalie (Alice Taglioni) and her friend Charlotte (Cecile Cassel). When Nathalie introduces Philippe to Charlotte at a party, he falls head over heels for her but is unable to make things happen despite her obvious encouragement. Eventually, Nathalie takes matters into her own hands and provides Philippe with some sexual lessons, though she's more interested in Charlotte's handsome divorced father (Thierry Lhermitte).
The episodic tale is best appreciated for its finely observed characterizations and its truthful portrait of the emotional and physical bumbling that results from teens trying to cope with their sexual and emotional needs. Alternately poignant and hilarious, sexy and moving, Armanet's screenplay, based on his novel, is filled with details, and his precise direction realizes them fully. The four lead performers seem utterly authentic in their roles, and the period re-creation contains the sort of small but important physical elements that add greatly to the fun. And it's all done to a fabulous '60s-era soundtrack featuring classic cuts by the likes of Otis Redding, the Animals, Aretha Franklin and many others.
- 12/13/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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